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pots and boxes of earth, in the apartments of 

 a houfe, placed in the windows, and om 

 chimney-piece flielves, ^'c. fuch particularly 

 as hyacinths, early dwarf tulips, polyanthos- 

 narciffus, bulbous irifes, Perfian iris, dwarf 

 tuberous iris, Florentino iris, Dutch jonquils, 

 colchicums, frictillarias, crocufes, and ane- 

 mones and ranunculufes, planted any time 

 from Oflober, November, or December, to 

 the end of February, and will all flower very 

 agreeably in Winter, or early in Spring : or to 

 have them flower as early as poffible, fome 

 glafles or pots of the roots may be placed in 

 a hot-houfe, any time in VV^inter, to blow in 

 that feafon, and in the early Spring months: 

 or pots of roots placed in a hot-bed in January 

 and February, they will alfo blow early. 



To blow them in water-glafles, fome roots 

 may be placed therein every month, from No- 

 vember till March, to have a fucceiTion of 

 early flowers in Spring, from January till 

 April or May. The glaflies or bottles for this 

 'purpofe are fold at moll of the feed-fhops and 

 nurferies, and at all the glafs warehoufes, at 

 five or fix ihillings per dozen ; are of an up- 

 right fomewhat tapering form, iix or eight 

 inches high, with awide concave mouth at top 

 to contain the root, one for each bottle; the 

 concavity of the mouth made larger or fmaller* 

 in different glafles, fuitable to the fizes of the 

 different forts of bulbs. 



The forts of bulbs as are principally raifed 

 for blowing in glaffes, are hyacinths, early 

 dwarf tulips, large Dutch and common joil^ 

 ^uils, bulbous and tuberous irife5> polyan- 



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